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Date:      Sun, 14 Nov 2004 18:55:07 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports UPDATING
Message-ID:  <20041115025507.GA30819@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4198193A.7060303@gmx.net>
References:  <200411150231.iAF2VOdh036168@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041115023759.GA30485@xor.obsecurity.org> <4198193A.7060303@gmx.net>

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On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:49:30AM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:31:24AM +0000, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> >
> >
> >>| +  Due to the recent removal of INDEX and INDEX-5 from FreeBSD's CVS,
> >>| +  portupgrade with default configuration will run 'make index' if=20
> >>started
> >>| +  after cvsup'ing the ports-collection. This may take an undesirably=
=20
> >>long
> >>| +  time.
> >>| +
> >>| +  There are several ways to work around this, for example:
> >>| +
> >>| +  - Run 'make fetchindex' after cvsup'ing ports.
> >>| +
> >>| +  or
> >>| +
> >>| +  - Adjust the PORTS_INDEX variable in your environment or in
> >>| +    pkgtools.conf (see portupgrade(1) or the default pkgtools.conf) =
to
> >>| +    a different value than the default.
> >
> >
> >ITYM INDEXFILE, unless portupgrade uses its own variable for that (in
> >which case you'd want to set both).
>=20
> It does, and it does not like INDEXFILE being redefined (it sets INDEXFIL=
E=20
> itself when calling make index and gets confused if INDEXFILE is already=
=20
> changed by way of make.conf. It does not have a problem with INDEXFILE=20
> being different from "INDEX"/"INDEX-5" if you patch bsd.port.mk though, n=
ot=20
> sure why.)

Hmm, that sounds kind of lame :(  Users are supposed to be able to
override INDEXFILE to e.g. work with read-only ports trees.

Kris

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